Baker Tilly Office

The Chaos panel now installed in Baker Tilly's Southfield, Michigan office has had two lives. The first began nearly a decade ago, when Davis & Davis specified it for the atrium of Baker Tilly's previous office in Farmington Hills. It was a bold, textured resin surface — intricate, large-format, and built to anchor a room. It did that work well, for years.

When Baker Tilly relocated and rebranded, the panel could have been discarded. Instead, designer Ada Tremont saw something else: a material with more to give. The panel returned to Sensitile's workshop in Detroit, where it was retrofitted with integrated edge lighting — a transformation that activated the dense, interwoven patterning of the Chaos surface in a way the original installation never had. Light now enters at the panel's edge and travels through the material, illuminating the ribbons of pattern from within and producing a glow that is warm, complex, and entirely self-contained.

Reinstalled in a corridor of the new Southfield office, the panel reads as a luminous wall — a focal point that orients movement through the space and signals arrival. It is simultaneously a new design element and a piece of the firm's own history, carried forward. The material didn't need to be replaced. It needed to be reimagined.